{"id":9566,"date":"2023-07-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9566"},"modified":"2023-07-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:00:00","slug":"the-ultimate-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-ultimate-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Consumer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045211\/1915-07-27\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Evening Public Ledger, July 27, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Light, in ballast, a thousand ships<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Come streaming through our harbor gate;<br\/>Then, laden down at busy slips,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Go out again with stores of freight<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bound over sea to the buyer great,<br\/>Who always calls for more and more,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whose greed not all the world may sate,<br\/>The ultimate consumer\u2014War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Ships that come from the Seven Seas,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some that move with stately gait;<br\/>Some that loiter in any breeze,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lured by Wartime\u2019s double rate.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mocking all at the hand of fate,<br\/>Seeking share in the wondrous store,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They come to serve, let who berate,<br\/>The ultimate consumer\u2014War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Battered hulks once forced aside<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By vessels of a later date;<br\/>Proud and scornful of wind and tide<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And foes that under the ocean wait,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Again they pass, but sans the state<br\/>That marked their going in days of yore;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Servants now of the king of hate,<br\/>The ultimate consumer\u2014War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Captain, the risk of the trip is great<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And none may tell when a gun will roar;<br\/>But you are serving, despite the strait<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The ultimate consumer\u2014War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Public Ledger, July 27, 1915. Light, in ballast, a thousand ships&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Come streaming through our harbor gate;Then, laden down at busy slips,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Go out again with stores of freight&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bound over sea to the buyer great,Who always calls for more and more,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whose greed not all the world may sate,The ultimate consumer\u2014War. Ships that come from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-public-ledger","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}